Thursday, December 3

I had a lot of free time today because my kids had PE in addition to my other free hours, so I took advantage of the time and decorated my door for Christmas. I kept it simple and put up a Christmas tree with presents and stars and such and said ‘Merry Christmas!’ and ‘5th grade, Miss Sneden.’ Marquito wanted to help me put some of the things on the door so I let him help. He’s one of my boys who drives me crazy getting out of his seat a lot or not paying attention, but I love him. My kids are also doing book reports here in the next week as well. It’s great to see them reading their books when they have free time and asking if they can read at recess or when they’re done with a test. I’m glad they enjoy it. I had tutorias today after school and we practiced reading out loud together because I’m testing their oral reading skills next week. I had to correct them on a few words. Words that start with ‘s’ they often add an ‘e’ before so ‘strike’ would be ‘estrike.’ Overall the kids did well, but they get the giggles, especially the girls, which makes it harder to stay focused….oh fifth grade girls. J We had a meeting after tutorias about next week and the practices for the program. We are having half days on Wednesday and Friday next week to practice in town for the program, which is fine, but it would’ve been nice to know before we planned for next week already. So in reality we don’t have many full days of school left. The day of the Christmas program, the 14th, will be no normal school because we’ll need to practice and then get ready for the program. And then the 15th and 16th are supposed to be ‘normal’ days of class….we’ll see how that goes haha!